Muchenje Camp Quotes & Sayings

No one can validate a writer and so, no one can invalidate them. — Carrie Bailey

My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission. Yet a translator must also balance fidelity to the source, aptness of expression, and beauty of style. The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture's patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language's rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people's gestures and movements. — Ken Liu

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration. — Freya Stark

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand. — Morena Baccarin

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. — Richard Wright

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust. — Brandon Sanderson

It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has its being in proud liberty because thousands are slaving for it, whose thraldom is the price of this liberty. This — Upton Sinclair

Vintage fountain pens have provenance that makes a traditionalist go weak at the knuckles. — Fennel Hudson

Small, forthright words, used in the service of condensing experience, might have an idea buried in them as large as the most expansive work that wears its intellectualism on its sleeve. The unshed tears of the deeply felt are akin to the unused large words in the service of a thought. — Sarah Ruhl